Combined washing and wringing machine



(No Model.)

B. WESNER. Combined Washing and Wringing Machine. No. 230,683. v Patented Aug. 3,1880

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EDWARD WESNER, OF PRINCEVILLE, ILLINOIS.

COMBINED WASHING AND WRINGING MACHINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 230,683, dated August 3, 1880.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it known that I, EDWARD WESNER, of the town of Princeville, in the county of Peoria, in the State of Illinois, have invented a Combined Washing Machine and Clothes- Wringer; and I do hereby declare that they following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof, reference being drawings, making a part of this specification, in which like letters of reference refer to like parts, and in which Figure 1 represents a longitudinal elevation; Fig. 2, a plan view; Fig. 3, a vertical cross-section on dotted line a a, Fig. 2; Fig. 4, a View of substitute roller 0 for the roller E.

This invention belongs to that class which combines a washing-machine and a clothes-' wringer in one machine; and it consists in the combination of two parallel pairs of rollers, the upper roller of one of said pairs having a longitudinal motion along its bearings and upon its fellow below it for rubbing purposes. Said upper rollers obtain rotary motion by pressure upon their fellow rollers beneath, and are geared for pressure thereon in the ordinary mode by means of braces and screws, &c. The lower rollers arethe motors, and are engaged with each other by means of an idle pinion meshing into the teeth of terminal pinions at the end of the respective lower rollers, the axle of one of which bears a wrench, while the same axle at its other end finishes in a bevel-pinion engaged with a similar pinion having a crank-pin which moves a rod which reciprocates lengthwise the roller above mentioned. One pair of said rollers (used for wringing) are made with longitudinal flutes or ribs, and the lowermost roller of the opposite pair isfluted or ribbed circularly, as well as is the substitute roller used above it, used in place of the smooth roller, as desired. The machine is submerged in suds and fixed to the bottom of the tub or washing-box, the clothes being passed back and forth between each pair of rollers by means of a reciprocation of the crank, one of the rollers, combining its longitudinal motion with its rotary motion, assisting the rubbing process in a kind of spiral motion.

.In the drawings, which represent one of the forms in which I construct this machine, A is bad to the annexed- Application filed May 13, 1880. (No model.)

the frame or base, made of any convenient form, fitted to support the two pairs'of horizontal rollers D E and F G. Attached to said frame are the long horizontal clothesguards a b (I, of the usual form, to prevent the clothes from passing beneath the bottom rollers, and the fingers e f g, to prevent the same from getting entangled beyond the ends of the respective rollers, and a support, h, to hold the pinion N.

B O are two the usual cross-braces i i and pressure-bar k, moving in the slots of. said respective standards, each bar fitted with the usual socketed rods 1, ending in the bearings a, which are extended or pressed downward upon the respective roller-axles by means of springs m, coiled upon said bearings n, in conjunction with the hand-screws 0 o.

D is a horizontal circumferentially corrugated or channeled roller, of wood, or wood covered with rubber, journaled at either end in or near the base of the respective standards B B; E, a roller, of wood or other material, covered with rubber, if desired, resting upon said roller D, so as to revolve with it, and journaled in its respective blocks or bearings n it, mentioned above, and capable of longitudinal motion in the latter by means of the frame K and a rod, L, connecting it with the pin of the bevel-pinion N, which is geared to the bevel-pinion M on the end of the axle of the ribbed roller F. Said roller F is fluted lengthwise, and, like roller D, is journaled at either end in or near the base of the respective standards 0 by means of its axle H, bearing a crank, p, and pinion I. G is the fellow roller to F, similarly fluted, and rides upon it, (roller F,) by means of its axle, in the respective bearings a of the respective pressure-rods l l of the bark of .the standards 0.

H is the crank-axle of roller F, p the crank, and I a pinion upon said axle engaging with the idle pinion I gages with pinion 1 on the axle of roller 1). The two rollers F G, after washing and being elevated above water, are finally used to wring out the water from the clothes.

The operation of this inachineis as follows: The rollers are submerged in the tub or box pairs of slotted standards, with I roo containing suds, 850., and may be fastened to the bottom of the same. The clothes are introduced between both pairs of rollers at once, and are carried back and forth in the same manner by means of a forWard-and-backward turn of the crank or winch p alternately, dur ing which the roller E passes back and forth over the clothes by means of the frame K, ro'd L, and pinion N, geared to the pinion M on the winch-axle H, so giving by the two motions an extra rubbing power to said roller E, which function may be increased by substituting for the latter roller the substitute roller 0, Fig. 4.

What I claim as my invention is-- 1. In a washing-machine, the combination of the lower roller, D, with roller E, connect-- ed'by frame K and rod L, and with pinions N M, with motive-roller F, or its axle H, connected by chain of pinions 1 1 1 to said roller 20 EDWARD WESNER.

Witnesses:

VALENTIN WEBER, J os. GERMAN.

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